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A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the book cover, with the dust jacket (if applicable) included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Some identifying marks on the inside cover, but this is minimal. Very little wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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- 9780262123013
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262123010
ISBN-13
9780262123013
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66033210
Product Key Features
Book Title
Being Watched : Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s
Number of Pages
382 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Individual Artists / General, History / Contemporary (1945-), Art & Politics, Dance / Modern, Film / Genres / General, American / General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Book Series
October Bks.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
34.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-039854
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Essential reading for anyone with an interest in Yvonne Rainer and the dynamic relationship between advanced performance and the visual arts during the 1960's and 1970's. Being Watchedzeroes in on the most basic fact about live performance: its ephemeral nature; and the book that results is a profound meditation on the problematic nature of 'seeing' itself." -Roger Copeland, author of Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance, "The book is a fantastic read and an exemplary text... a highly original analysis,this study is sure to become a classic." MJ Thompson TDR: The DramaReview, The book is a fantastic read and an exemplary text...a highly original analysis, this study is sure to become a classic., "The book is a fantastic read and an exemplary text... a highly original analysis, this study is sure to become a classic." MJ Thompson TDR: The Drama Review
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
792.8/2092 B
Synopsis
In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously transformed the performing body -- stripped it of special techniques and star status, traded its costumes and leotards for T-shirts and sneakers, asked it to haul mattresses or recite texts rather than leap or spin. Without discounting these innovations, Carrie Lambert-Beatty argues in Being Watched that the crucial site of Rainer's interventions in the 1960s was less the body of the performer than the eye of the viewer -- or rather, the body as offered to the eye. Rainer's art, Lambert-Beatty writes, is structured by a peculiar tension between the body and its display. Through close readings of Rainer's works of the 1960s -- from the often-discussed dance Trio A to lesser-known Vietnam war-era protest dances -- Lambert-Beatty explores how these performances embodied what Rainer called "the seeing difficulty." (As Rainer said: "Dance is hard to see.") Viewed from this perspective, Rainer's work becomes a bridge between key episodes in postwar art. Lambert-Beatty shows how Rainer's art (and related performance work in Happenings, Fluxus, and Judson Dance Theater) connects with the transformation of the subject-object relation in minimalism and with emerging feminist discourse on the political implications of the objectifying gaze. In a spectacle-soaked era, moreover -- when images of war played nightly on the television news -- Rainer's work engaged the habits of viewing formed in mass-media America, linking avant-garde art and the wider culture of the 1960s. Rainer is significant, argues Lambert-Beatty, not only as a choreographer, but as a sculptor of spectatorship.
LC Classification Number
GV1785.R25L36 2007
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